Liquid Hydrogen Plasma Star Model

[CharlesChandler]

Charles, you talked about two stars colliding ?

Can you say, "thermonuclear explosion"?

What would happen to liquid plasma if it were suddenly introduced to space vacuum and temp? Could it disperse as a plasma field?

Hydrogen definitely disperses. Heavier elements are capable of condensation, depending on the strength of their covalent bonds. But if we're still talking about collisional explosions, the outward velocity disperses the plasma.

Or be collected in large Birkeland currents and carried away?

What currents, with potentials between what and what?

[Sparky]

Thanks..,.

Thermonuclear ? Wouldn't that produce an EMF and currents ? Could some super novae be such a scenario?

Thanks...

[justcurious]

I am looking forward to watching Robitaille's presentation on this topic at EU2014.

As an aside, some were mentioning heavier elements in this thread.
I have recently completed an x-ray astronomy course.
If the spectrography theory and measurements are reliable and accurate, there are many places observed by Chandra where we see iron emission lines (photons with energies just above 6kev) and there are no stars, and sometimes nothing at all in the visible light. It seems that every time I analyse x-ray sources from Chandra data, I always seem to find iron all over the place (I'm exaggerating, but it does seem pretty common).